Serial Dutch pedophile arrested in Hua Hin

 

Image: TNN Thailand

 

Officers from Thailand’s Department of Special Investigations have arrested a Dutchman wanted for sexually abusing children under the age 15.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1010089-serial-dutch-pedophile-arrested-in-hua-hin/

 

Thailand to roll out biometric checks for SIM cards nationwide

 

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand will introduce biometric checks nationwide for mobile telephone users to register their SIM cards from Dec. 15, the telecoms regulator said on Monday, in a bid to stamp out fraudulent electronic transactions.

 

Full story: https://tech.thaivisa.com/thailand-roll-biometric-checks-sim-cards-nationwide/25450/

Video: Monks behaving badly - abbot's assistant kicks fellow monk in head as he counts Loy Krathong "takings"

 

Image: Thairath

 

A video posted on Facebook was yet another example of the monkhood behaving like hooligans.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1010107-video-monks-behaving-badly-abbots-assistant-kicks-fellow-monk-in-head-as-he-counts-loy-krathong-takings/

 

Prawit’s brother to review NACC law despite ongoing probe

By The Nation

 

Deputy Prime Minister General Prawit Wongsuwan

 

THE JUNTA-appointed National Legislative Assembly (NLA) has given Pol General Patcharawat Wongsuwan the green light to sit on a committee vetting the organic law governing the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC), despite the fact that he is being investigated by the agency for being “unusually rich”.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1010129-prawit’s-brother-to-review-nacc-law-despite-ongoing-probe/

 

Academics warn of junta political party nominee

By WASAMON AUDJARINT 
THE NATION

 

Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister General Prawit Wongsuwan inspects a model of an armoured vehicle during the Thailand Defence and Security 2017 event in Bangkok yesterday.

 

PRAWIT SAYS NCPO WOULD FORM PARTY ‘IF NECESSARY’ BUT DENIES COLLABORATION WITH NEW ‘VOLUNTEERS’

 

ANY ATTEMPT by the ruling National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) to prolong its political power by setting up a nominee party would only repeat “the history of Thai politics” and be unhealthy for both politics and the junta itself, academics and politician have warned.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1010130-academics-warn-of-junta-political-party-nominee/

 

I’m not setting up party to support junta at election: Maj-Gen Songklod

By The Nation

 

Maj Gen Songklod.

 

Maj-General Songklod Thipparat on Monday rejected speculation that he was setting up a political party to support the junta ahead of the coming national election, saying he had not yet registered the party with the Election Commission.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1010131-i’m-not-setting-up-party-to-support-junta-at-election-maj-gen-songklod/

 

Songklod’s ‘volunteer’ group seen as base for pro-junta political front

By The Nation

 

 

MAJ-GENERAL Songklod Thipparat may have had a low profile as a member of the military’s working group for reform preparations for people’s happiness, but that has changed in recent months.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1010132-songklod’s-‘volunteer’-group-seen-as-base-for-pro-junta-political-front/

 

Govt downplays Bt30-billion claim as Australian firm seeks negotiations to avoid conflict

By The Nation

 

File photo

 

THE government will conduct further negotiations with Australia’s Kingsgate Consolidated following a dispute over the closure of the mine, downplaying speculation that it may have to pay significant compensation to the firm.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1010133-govt-downplays-bt30-billion-claim-as-australian-firm-seeks-negotiations-to-avoid-conflict/

Health officials intervene as villagers accuse widow of being organ-eating ghost

By The Nation

 

 

PUBLIC HEALTH officials, including a doctor and psychologists, have been dispatched to a tambon in Nong Kung Si district in Kalasin province following rumours that a porb ghost had killed four men.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1010135-health-officials-intervene-as-villagers-accuse-widow-of-being-organ-eating-ghost/

 

Govt hit by lawsuit over flood toll

By THE NATION

 

 

South braces for more rain as severe storm warning issued with 4-metre waves feared.

A RESORT owner has sued the Khon Kaen Water Management committee for its failure to prevent floods that extensively damaged her business, while a storm warning has been issued for Surat Thani and Chumphon with landfall expected today.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1010136-govt-hit-by-lawsuit-over-flood-toll-south-braces-for-more-rain-as-severe-storm-warning-issued/

 

Winner Nitchaon thanks Buddhism for her new-found mental toughness

By Lerpong Amsa-ngiam 
The Nation

 

Jongkolphan Kititharakul, Nitchaon Jindapol and Rawinda Prajongjai pose with their trophies.

 

The newly crowned Bitburder Badminton Open champion Nitchaon Jindapol cited Buddhist meditation as the secret of her success after she won the title in Saarbrucken, Germany for the second time on Sunday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1010137-winner-nitchaon-thanks-buddhism for-her-new-found-mental-toughness/

 

Luksika on a hot run heading to Hua Hin

By Lerpong Amsa-ngiam 
The Nation

 

Luksika Kumkhum runs for a shot during practice.

 

Hua Hin - Luksika Kumkhum is hoping that her recent top form will take her far in the US$125,000 ,EA Hua Hin tennis Championship, which got underway at the True Arena Hua Hin yesterday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1010139-luksika-on-a-hot-run heading-to-hua-hin/

 

Energy reform means big changes for PTT, major power distributors 

By   WICHIT CHAITRONG  
THE NATION

 

 

THE ENERGY REFORM will inevitably affect businesses of Thailand’s energy giant and other major electricity generating and distributing authorities, Pornchai Rujiprapa, chairman of the National Energy Reform Committee, said yesterday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1010140-energy-reform-means-big-changes for-ptt-major-power-distributors /

 

UPDATE:

 

Police arrest woman over death of her housemaid five years ago

By The Nation

 

Krisana “Mona” Suwanpitak

 

Police have arrested a Bangkok-based woman for allegedly killing her 16-year-old housemaid in 2012.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1010096-employer-arrested-for-alleged-murder-of-maid-missing-for-5-years/?do=findComment&comment=12424528

 

EDITORIAL

Time for Prayut to relinquish absolute power

By The Nation

 

Autocratic rule has outlasted its welcome as we head towards election a return to democratic norms

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1010141-time-for-prayut-to-relinquish-absolute-power/

 

Trigger-Happy? Junta Leader Takes Aim At Cambodian Counterpart

By Teeranai Charuvastra, Staff Reporter

 

Gen. Prawit Wongsuwan points an assault rifle at Cambodian Deputy PM Tea Banh on Monday

 

BANGKOK — Deputy junta chairman Prawit Wongsuwan was criticized Monday for casually handling a firearm and seeming to forget a universal tenet of military training: trigger discipline.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1010143-trigger-happy-junta-leader-takes-aim-at-cambodian-counterpart/

 

UPDATE:

A Dutch businessman arrested in Hua Hin on child molestation charges

By Thai PBS

 

 

A Dutch businessman was arrested in Hua Hin on November 5 by Hua Hin police and officials from the Department of Special Investigation on child molesting charges.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1010089-serial-dutch-pedophile-arrested-in-hua-hin/?page=2&tab=comments#comment-12424540

 

Sugar price to drop by 2-3 baht/kg when price is floated as of Dec 1

By Thai PBS

 

 

The retail price of white sugar is expected to average 20.50-21 baht per kilogramme – down 2-3 baht per kg from the current price – after the floating of sugar price as of December 1.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1010144-sugar-price-to-drop-by-2-3-bahtkg-when-price-is-floated-as-of-dec-1/

 

Clothing tycoon to donate 16.1 million baht for Toon Bodyslam’s charity run

By Thai PBS

 

 

Clothing tycoon Jimmy Chawala said Sunday night he will donate 16.1 million baht to rock star 
Artiwara Kongmalai, aka “Toon Bodyslam”, when the runner arrives in Nakhon SinThammarst on his 2,191 kilometre long charity run from Betong to Mae Sai.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1010145-clothing-tycoon-to-donate-161-million-baht-for-toon-bodyslam’s-charity-run/

 

UPDATE:

 

Brit Army veteran, 50, viciously attacked at gunpoint in Phuket

The Phuket News

 

Mik Laverty from Newton Aycliffe, Durham, northeast England, suffered multiple leg fractures in the attack. Photo: Donna Spensley / Crowdfunder

 

PHUKET: A couple from the United Kingdom have launched a fundraising campaign to pay for hospital bills after the man, an Army veteran, suffered multiple leg fractures in a vicious mugging in Phuket last Thursday (Nov 2).

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1010077-british-man-mugged-at-gunpoint-and-left-for-dead-on-first-day-of-birthday-trip-with-wife-to-thailand/?do=findComment&comment=12424560

 

Broadcom offers to buy mobile chipmaker Qualcomm for $103 billion

BY REUTERS

 

REUTERS/Mike Blake/Files

 

(Reuters) – Communications chipmaker Broadcom Ltd on Monday said it offered to buy smartphone chip supplier Qualcomm Inc for $70 per share or $103 billion in cash and stock, in what would be the biggest technology acquisition ever.

 

Full story: https://tech.thaivisa.com/broadcom-offers-buy-mobile-chipmaker-qualcomm-103-billion/25457/

Indonesia threatens to block WhatsApp messaging over obscene content

BY REUTERS 

 

REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/Files

 

JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia on Monday vowed to block Facebook Inc’s WhatsApp Messenger within 48 hours if the service did not ensure that obscene Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) images were removed.

 

Full story: https://tech.thaivisa.com/indonesia-threatens-block-whatsapp-messaging-obscene-content/25455/

WARNING: New Netflix scam targets millions of customers worldwide

BY STAFF WRITER

 

Image: Mailguard

 

A new scam targeting Netflix customers is sweeping the world.

 

Full story: https://tech.thaivisa.com/warning-new-netflix-scam-targets-millions-customers-worldwide/25461/

Texas church shooter threatened mother-in-law before rampage - official

By Jon Herskovitz and Lisa Maria Garcia

 

Devin Patrick Kelley, 26, of Braunfels, Texas, U.S., involved in the First Baptist Church shooting in Sutherland Springs, Texas, is shown in this undated Texas Department of Safety driver license photo, provided November 6, 2017. Texas Department of Safety/Handout via REUTERS

 

SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas (Reuters) - A man court-martialed by the U.S. Air Force on charges of assaulting his wife and child sent threatening messages to his mother-in-law who sometimes attended the rural Texas church where he fatally shot 26 people, officials said on Monday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1010147-texas-church-shooter-threatened-mother-in-law-before-rampage-official/

 

Britain says Johnson comments do not justify more Iran charges against jailed aid worker

 

FILE PHOTO - Britain's Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson leaves 10 Downing Street, London, Britain, October 24 2017. REUTERS/Mary Turner

 

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain said on Monday that comments by Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson about jailed Iranian-British aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe should not be used by the Islamic Republic to bring additional charges against her.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1010148-britain-says-johnson-comments-do-not-justify-more-iran-charges-against-jailed-aid-worker/

 

Purge of Saudi princes, businessmen widens, travel curbs imposed

By Stephen Kalin and Reem Shamseddine

 

FILE PHOTO - Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal attends a news conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia August 30, 2009. REUTERS/Fahad Shadeed/File Photo

 

RIYADH (Reuters) - A campaign of mass arrests of Saudi Arabian royals, ministers and businessmen expanded on Monday after a top entrepreneur was reportedly detained in the biggest anti-corruption purge of the kingdom's affluent elite in its modern history.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1010150-purge-of-saudi-princes-businessmen-widens-travel-curbs-imposed/

 

Egyptian rights lawyer says he'll run for president in 2018

By Ahmed Aboulenein

 

Egyptian human rights lawyer and opposition leader Khaled Ali speaks during his news conference about the upcoming 2018 presidential election at Egypt's Dostour (Constitution) Party headquarters in the capital of Cairo, Egypt, November 6, 2017. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany

 

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian human rights lawyer and opposition leader Khaled Ali said on Monday he would challenge President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in the 2018 presidential election, provided he is not barred from the contest.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1010152-egyptian-rights-lawyer-says-hell-run-for-president-in-2018/

 

Saudi Arabia says Lebanon declares war, deepening crisis

By Tom Perry and Lisa Barrington

 

A poster depicting Lebanon's Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri, who has resigned from his post, hangs along a street in the mainly Sunni Beirut neighbourhood of Tariq al-Jadideh in Beirut, Lebanon November 6, 2017. The Arabic on the poster reads, "With you forever". REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir

 

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia accused Lebanon on Monday of declaring war against it because of aggression by the Iran-backed Lebanese Shi'ite group Hezbollah, a dramatic escalation of a crisis threatening to destabilise the tiny Arab country.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1010153-saudi-arabia-says-lebanon-declares-war-deepening-crisis/

 

Trump's Seoul visit to put him at heart of North Korea nuclear standoff

By Steve Holland and Matt Spetalnick

 

Protesters from a conservative civic group take part in a pro-Trump rally in central Seoul, South Korea, November 6, 2017. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji

 

TOKYO/SEOUL (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump will step directly into the shadow of the North Korean nuclear standoff on Tuesday on a visit to South Korea in which his words alone could risk further inflaming tensions with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1010154-trumps-seoul-visit-to-put-him-at-heart-of-north-korea-nuclear-standoff/

 

Russian lawyer says Trump son offered to return to issue of sanctions law: Bloomberg

 

FILE PHOTO - Donald Trump Jr. stands onstage with his father Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump after Trump's debate against Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, U.S. on September 26, 2016. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo

 

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian lawyer who met Donald Trump Jr. during the 2016 election campaign said the U.S. president's son told her his father, if elected, could return to the issue of a U.S. law which imposes sanctions on Russian officials related to the death of a Russian lawyer, Bloomberg reported.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1010156-russian-lawyer-says-trump-son-offered-to-return-to-issue-of-sanctions-law-bloomberg/